________________ 382 Homage to Vaisali Another Mahalla of Hajipur is known as Jaruba, a corruption of Jalua, so-called because the town was burnt when Hussain Shah, King of Jaunpore, soon after his accession in 856 A. H. 1451 A. D. and truce with Bablol Lodi, led an expedition against Tirbut and Orissa and on the way devastated and burnt down a part of Hajipur. Jaruba is rich in historical monuments, the most remarkable of which is the Mamun Bhapja Ka Maqbara. The mausoleum is built on a raised platform with several enclosing walls. There is a flight of pine high steps from the road to the floor of the mausoleum. The second door on the staircase has a stone lintel while the jam of the third door is also built of stone. The fourth or the topmost door has got brick jam. Two walls enclose the mausoleum. The inner wall contains latticed windows, three on each side. The walls are partly dilapidated. The outer wall measures 85' 4" both ways. The main mausoleum is a square building pierced by three arch openings on all sides. The walls enclosing the tomb measure 199* by 17' 2". To the north of this enclosure there is a Ciragadana. The mausoleum contains two tombs which are ascribed to two personages, Syed Muhammad and his maternal uncle Syed Ahmad, who had died as martyrs. Tradition says that the dead bodies were discovered while a tank was being dug at the order of Raja Shiva Singh of Tirhut (early 15th century A. D.). It was at the expense of the Raja that what was once a magnificent building was erected by two Muslim sepoys who lived in disguise in his camp. The descendants of the sepoys are still alive and they are the hereditary mojawirs or custodians of the mausoleum which was badly damaged in the earthquake of 1934. They claim to have had in their possession many Firmans and Sabads, which, they say, were granted by Firoz Shab Tughlak, kings of Bengal, and the various Subedars of Bibar down to the days of Raja Sitab Rai. Some valuble docu1. Three Sanads, the copies of which have been taken for the Patna College Historical Museum by Prof. Syed Hasan Askari, M. A., B. L., show that Shaikh Bayazid, a mojawir of Pir Mamunbhapja mausoleum was granted a Firman conferring on bim 50 bigbas of land free of rent in Sadullahpore Satan of pergana Haveli Hajipur and the Sanads were renewed from time to time by Nawab Jafar Khan (Murshid Quli Khan of Bengal) and such Subedars of Bihar as Daud Khan Quraishi, Lashkar Khan, Amir Khan, Saif Khan and Safi Khan. It is very regrettable to mention that the old gentleman Sheikh Nasiruddin Saheb who had at first shown these decuments snatched away the remaining opes, from the hands of one of us and sternly refused, despite repeated requests, to allow us to have a glance at them.
